SHUFFLE OF SOVIET GOVERNMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500790117-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 117
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For Release 2006/11/05: CIA-RDP80-00809AO00500790117-2
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
shuffle cf Soviet q^vennmen'
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.Lmror? --Lnt joint .essior. of the Presidium of the Communist Party will take place
the first half of Jan 19 5t+, during which a reshuffle of the Soviet Government will
a'.*.-.-t'un ed. NS KIJrushchev will be designated First Deputy Prime Minister and
take over the dire:tion of the atomic research,and production program.
:ill '..-e released from all present functions to take over the
;."r Far _ton of a r..ad e^or_om{ s plan for the USSR.
Ar ?;h=. :!asr.e t:'.ve a de~.ision will be made between Khrushclev and Kaganovich as the
r-p=a-.,.m?nt for V.M.Molctov in the Foreign Ministry, should this become necessary.
A. recrganization of the se:ret services will be ordered, and this may include the
rte.=*atlishmsnt? of the independent Ministry of State Security under A.M.1Cosygin.
Azncther pro jet to be dis^?ussed is the decentralization of the Ministry of Defense,
the possible designation of Deputy Ministers for Army, Navy and Air, and new
afco.tntmer_ts in territorial defense for AM \Iasilevsky and G.K.Zhukov.
A..T.Mik.van wi.l- to ;laced in charge of the economic development of the Asiatic parts
t},- Soviet IT Ion,, whe*?~ a new capital is to be built, second only to Moscow. A
=.-~rma::.en.* off1:?e of Deputy Minister of Defense at Vladivostok will be set up and_
M.a^hs3'_ Sckc .o-?1(y :x4,31 be appointed to.it.
Tner, '.,L prcmoticna for mio.isters I.A.Benediktov, V.A.Malyahev and I.I.Mosenko,
whr.- Mara p!-ove to t- effl,--lent administrators.
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